--- title: I Revisited Our Optional Code Review Policy | daily.dev description: A developer reflects on their team's experiment with making human code review optional, replacing it with AI-based approval. After a few months, the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-revisited-our-optional-code-review-policy-jhpnz0x6t twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I Revisited Our Optional Code Review Policy | daily.dev og:description: A developer reflects on their team's experiment with making human code review optional, replacing it with AI-based approval. After a few months, the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-revisited-our-optional-code-review-policy-jhpnz0x6t og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/JHpnz0X6T.png og:image:alt: I Revisited Our Optional Code Review Policy og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I Revisited Our Optional Code Review Policy **[Atomic Spin](https://daily.dev/sources/atomicobject)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer reflects on their team's experiment with making human code review optional, replacing it with AI-based approval. After a few months, the agreed-upon norms broke down under delivery pressure, AI reviewers missed improvement opportunities that humans would catch, and team awareness of each other's work declined. The author concludes that optional code review isn't universally bad, but its impact depends heavily on team size, trust level, and co-location — smaller, high-trust, colocated teams can absorb the loss better than remote or high-pressure teams. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Code Review Has Changed. 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